St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-01

the telegraph editor fixes it up and
sends it to the printer. Seconds are
valuable, and everything must be
without hitch. BY the time the Oper-
ator gets the last word almost the entire
article has been set by the printers, and
it is soon i'll the forms and locked up"
A good many valuable minutes are
saved in comparison with the old
method of receiving at the telegraph Of
flee and sending to the newspaper office
by messenger. The whole business has
been reduced to a perfect system, and
the GLOBE is as well equipped as any
newspaper Office III America to gather
the news. The cost of all this, as may
readily be supposed is simply enormous.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The public has heard great deal of
talk about the Associated Press, and yet
it is doubtful if one out of every thous-
and knows just what it means. An eX-
PLANTATION of its objects and workings
will undoubtedly be Of novel interest to
great many people:
The association is composed of the several
papers, not of the individuals who own or
control them and so the proprietorship or
policy OF paper may change without affect
lllS inc pOSlllOH Ol tllhJ paper Ill TIE
ship. 1t collects news primarily for its own
seven members taking for the use of all a
common dispatch, narrating congressional
proceedings or any event of general interest
and reducing the cost to each by dividing be-
tween all the expenses of reporting and tele-
graphing. But its scope was enlarged soon
after its organization, and it now sells news
at stipulated rates to over 500 other papers
published in every part of the continent. Its
agents are scattered over the whole world.
Its London offices are never closed, and the
news arriving there is forwarded under
nearly 5000 miles Of ocean at all hours as
rapidly as it is received. ConfHing itself to
no arbitrary limit, its daily cable tolls are
seldom less than $500, and sometimes they
are four times that amount. North and Cen
trail America are covered by its ewn agents.
and by arrangements with the great news
agencies abroad, including Reuters, it re-
ceives the news collections of the latter from
every part of Europe, Asia, Africa and
South America. In well-populated regions
Of the United States sub-assOciatons are
formed, which give the local papers fuller
details of local affairs than more distant
papers would require; and in sparsely set
tied districts, where news items are not fire.
qsfent enough to warrant the appointment OF
regular agents, the telegraph operators are
.authorized to employ men of ability in the
interest of the association whenever any ca
lamity, disturbance or excitement occurs.
Jas the dispatches reach the general agency
they are handed to the manager Of the mani
folding room, under whose direction copies
are multiplied for distribution, the manifold
ing process enabling one writer to make from
twelve to twenty-six copies at time, by
means OF very tough, oiled tissue paper,
alternated with carbonized paper, and IN
agate or carnelan point substituted for
pen or pencil. When page OF manifold is
written the office assistants separate end en-
yelope the copies, which are sent to the city
newspapers by messengers. Other copies are
handed to agents representing sections of the
papers in the North, South, East and West,
who edit them, each agent eliminating what
ever will not interest his particular constit'
uency, and adding anything OF value that he
can obtain from other sources. The distribu,
ton is effected by telegraphic delivery at
many points along continuous line Of wire
at the same instant Of time. The system in
wolves combination reports, which are for.
warded to all who share them at or within
certain fixed hours srranSed by n con
Though the reports to Boston, for in
stance, are sent direct at all hours, the
same report is repeated to other places
in New England on combined circuit;
that is to say, New York is Put into tele-
graphic connection by single wire stimuli
taneously with New Haven, Hartford, Spring
field, Worcester, and other points East where
each town or village an operator takes posi-
ton at his instrument when report hour is
called, and is ready to write the report in
manifold as 1t comes over the wire. Another
operator writes the message by the transmit
ting instrument In New York, and that one
writing sends it to all points on the circuit.
The kilograms to the Western press are sent
taneously at Pittsburg, Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Chicago, st. Louis, st. Paul, Minneapolis, and
other principal points. At various principal
cities-St Paul being one Of them--condensed